Carn Dearg and Sgor Gaibhre

[Julie]

Well, after my grand day out on The Fara on 4-5-11 we thought we'd keep the momentum up and we fancied a night under canvas so we went along by loch rannoch and parked at the wee loch just before Rannoch station.
Set off up the old road to Fort William

The old road to the Fort

The rucksack with legs

Walked for about an hour then pitched the tent by the river just after the bridge

Set off at 12.10 following the road to the fort and the views started to open up, especially down the blackwater resevoir and out to Corrour station.

views down blackwater and leum uilliem

Left the old road and climbed fairly easily up onto the ridge with wee lochans and good views, the clouds were staying high and the rain was staying away

the ridge

Our other munro looked a long long way away

looking to sgor gaibhre

Along the ridge and reached the summit of Carn Dearg at 14.40 and stopped for a cheese piece and a look at the view

towards sgor gaibhre ans Ben alder

Down the wide ridge towards the Mam Ban and ten contoured round to take in the munro top of sgor connich which was steep but fab then down and up 500ft to the munro of Sgor Gaibhre at 17.00

summit

Views down Glen nevis, binnein beag and the ben

Being gluttons for punishment and despite the shower we pushed onto the corbett, which is further away and rougher than it first looks!

rainbow over the top end of loch ericht

and reached it at 19.00, it had a nice wee summit lochan surrounded by wee cliffs, clouds really starting to build up now and we had tired legs

collapsed on the corbett!!

Down the very tussocky ridge to the river and the trashed stalkers path, repaired with lots of old sleepers and headed out of the corrie

the way out

Reached the tent in the peeing rain at 21.30, heated water for a bombay bad boy pot noodle had my luxury camping item of a tin of gin and tonic and fell asleep ( well i think i was unconcious) until 08.10 this morning, not raining, had coffee and a bisciut and packed up , we were going to do the wee relative hill ( sron ????) but we couldn't be bothered and instead went home for big pint mug of tea and veggie breakfast,
Haven't moved off the sofa since, happy days!!!

[Phil the Hill]

Good report, Julie. I did a variant on this route on Tuesday 24th and intend to post a report soon.

How did you find the walk out via the Beinn Pharlagain ridge? We were warned it can be rough and very boggy so didn't attempt it after the wet weather, simply reversing our route back from Sgor Gaibhre (including re-bagging Carn Dearg as it seemed less trouble than contouring round). I note you say "very tussocky" and "trashed", which implies it isn't easy going!

[Julie]

Hi Phil The Hill,
We came straight down off the corbett instead of following the ridge and the descent was ok , it was the Stalkers path out along the glen by the river that was hard going but it was a grand trip out,
just in the door from doing Mount Keen, a lovely day for it
Julie

[ChrisW]

A fine report and some beautiful pics - they are always further away than they look aren't they, but we never learn